XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 10:15:04 +0000, Andy Burns wrote :   
      
      
   > Take into account, my first Android device (Nexus1) had a microSD slot,   
   > which it certainly needed due to only having 512MB of onboard flash and   
   > 512MB of RAM, so plenty of swapfile and moving parts of the system to SD   
   > ... but no phone I've owned since then has had a card slot.   
      
   Hi Andy,   
      
   You bring up a good point that people have to live with their decisions.   
   With that in mind... as you're quite well aware...   
      
   We've had the lack of sd discussion so many times on both the Android & on   
   (paradoxically) the Apple newsgroups, that I'm sure you realize the last   
   time we checked, the vast majority of Android phones have an sd card slot.   
      
   With that observation that, last I had checked most Androids still have an   
   sd slot in mind...   
      
   And... without rehashing the glaringly obvious fact that it was your choice   
   to NOT have an sd card slot...   
      
   Q: How do *you* double your portable storage when you need to, Andy?   
   A: ?   
      
   You can't, right?   
   For about $10, I (we) can.   
      
   Seamlessly. As long as I (rather elegantly) plan years ahead, that is.   
       
      
   I can triple & quadruple that portable storage, any time I feel like it.   
   You can't. Right?    
      
   For as many phones as I want to do it for, right?   
      
   (Note: I have 3 free Samsung Galaxy A32-5Gs in my household right now.)   
      
      
   So, for about $30, I can double the memory of every Android in the house!   
   You can't do *any* of that, right?   
      
   Personally, unless I was made out of pure money, I wouldn't touch an   
   Android phone that didn't have both the sd card slot & the aux jack.   
      
   Please see the sig for the caveats.   
   --   
   Note: We all know that Apple & Google want to push people toward storing   
   their editing files being stored on 'someone else's computer', but this is   
   not "portable storage" in the sense that I'm using the term.   
      
   The way I'm using "Portable Storage" is in the examples I already provided,   
   where I've replaced (twice now!) the same model phone with a free   
   replacement under warranty where the sd card was swapped out and the   
   editors on Android didn't even realize they were on a different phone.   
      
   In addition, as Andy is also well aware, I even tested *doubling* the   
   storage size on the third phone, and the Android editors didn't even   
   flinch.   
      
   That's the huge significance of "portable" in the term "portable storage".   
      
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